Neowin News Feed for: Shorts

YouTube now lets you turn off the endless Shorts scroll

Karthik Mudaliar — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:58:02 +0000

YouTube now lets you set your Shorts feed limit to zero, cutting off the infinite scroll entirely. Here's how you can do it. Read more...

You may soon need to enter a code to unlock Reels on Instagram

Sagar Naresh Bhavsar — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 07:08:02 +0000

Instagram is testing a new Reel feature that requires users to unlock it with a code and a provided hint. Read more...

YouTube is testing an AI music remix feature that lets creators restyle licensed songs

Sagar Naresh Bhavsar — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:54:02 +0000

YouTube is testing a new AI feature that will let creators generate a unique 30-second soundtrack to use in their Shorts. Read more...

YouTube is testing 'Save' button for Shorts by burying the 'Dislike' button

Sagar Naresh Bhavsar — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 13:54:01 +0000

YouTube is currently testing a new "Save" button for Shorts that allows users to watch videos later but makes it difficult to dislike them. Read more...

YouTube's latest experiment automatically downloads Shorts videos on your device

Aditya Tiwari — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 17:30:02 +0000

YouTube is trying to give more traction to its Shorts videos. The company is testing the waters with its latest experiment that automatically downloads recommended Shorts videos on users' devices. Read more...

YouTube rolling out separate tabs for Shorts, live streams, and long-form videos

Hemant Saxena — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 07:24:01 +0000

To remove hassles related to switching to a different category from the Videos tab on YouTube, the video-sharing service is rolling out separate tabs for Shorts, live streams, and long-form videos. Read more...

YouTube launches "handles" for better channel identification

Karthik Mudaliar — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 09:30:02 +0000

YouTube has launched handles which will provide every creator with a unique handle name. This will ensure that the audience knows whether or not they are watching their desired creator. Read more...

YouTube starts adding watermarks to downloaded Shorts

Karthik Mudaliar — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 10:14:01 +0000

Creators who are downloading Shorts using the YouTube Studio on desktop will soon start seeing watermarks on their videos. This is to ensure viewers across other platforms can become aware of Shorts. Read more...

TikTok to allow longer-form content with up to 10-minute videos, challenging YouTube

Alap Naik Desai — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 19:32:02 +0000

TikTok is gradually allowing its content creators to record and upload longer-length videos, stretching up to 10 minutes. Meanwhile, social media platforms are adopting TikTok's successful formula. Read more...

TikTok fined a whopping €750,000 for "violating children's privacy"

Sayan Sen — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 16:16:02 +0000

TikTok has been fined a huge sum of money by the Dutch DPA, a sum total of €750,000, for not appropriately communicating its app's data privacy and usage policy, in accordance with the EU's GDPR. Read more...

YouTube launches $100 million fund to pay Shorts creators until 2022

Jay Bonggolto — Tue, 11 May 2021 21:10:01 +0000

YouTube is doling out $100 million in funding to Shorts creators over the period 2021-2022. The funding is open to everyone, although your videos must have high engagement and number of views. Read more...

YouTube introduces YouTube Shorts beta in the U.S.

Namerah Saud Fatmi — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 18:20:01 +0000

Wildly popular video streaming platform YouTube launched a miniature video sharing feature called Shorts in India last year in September. Today YouTube brought the feature in beta to the U.S. Read more...

Apple Adds Movie Shorts to the US iTunes Music Store

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 23:59:33 +0000

Apple has added a series of short movies to the films it sells through the US iTunes Music Store. The movies are being made available as first fruit of a new deal with independent... Read more...

WinInformant Shorts for Week Ending 30th

Fri, 27 Sep 2002 21:00:02 +0000

Found this over on Paul's site...AOL to Debut New Two Towers Trailer. But wait, I thought this was the only reason people visited Apple.com. AOL Time Warner announced this week that it will exclusively debut... Read more...

Microsoft shorts from International CES 2002

Tue, 08 Jan 2002 17:09:39 +0000

Last night, Bill gates gave the keynote address at the 2002 Internetional CES show in Las Vegas. This is a quick recap on some of the announcements, he made in his... Read more...

Couple of News shorts, Car & Whitehouse :D

Steven Parker — Tue, 08 Jan 2002 10:30:21 +0000

Thanks Dan for this news byte. Hybrids becoming auto show regulars General Motors Corp. is unveiling a futuristic fuel-cell car that a single owner could drive for 15 to 20 years. Sound too good... Read more...